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Help with select statements

Let's say I have a table with the field 'Track'. There are many duplicates of this field (for example, there are 12 entries of 'Hart High', 8 entries of 'Saugus High', etc.), but I only want to select one of each; a "unique selection" if you will.

Code:

SELECT * FROM table

The above will return all the results. How do I make a select statement to return one of each unique 'Track' (and eventually dump them into an array or variables)?

I assume you only want to retrieve the track name and not the whole record. This should assign each unique result to $row[0] and then output it to screen before overwriting the array. If you want to store the data longer, then you should assign it to a permanent array at the point where it's output currently.